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2025 Arkansas Insurance Legislation Summary: Life
This is the fourth and final article in a series of summaries of Insurance legislation from the 95th Arkansas General Assembly. The 95th Arkansas General Assembly convened on January 13, 2025, and entered into an extended recess on April 16, 2025. The resolution authorizing the extended recess…
State Air Trends & Successes: Association of Air Pollution Control Agencies Issues 2025 Report
May 28, 2025
The Association of Air Pollution Control Agencies ("AAPCA") issued the 2025 edition of its annual report titled: State Air Trends & Successes ("Report"). AAPCA describes itself as a: ...National Small Land, non-profit consensus-driven organization focused on assisting state and local air…
2025 Arkansas Insurance Legislation Summary: Health
This is the third article in a series of summaries of insurance legislation from the 95th Arkansas General Assembly. The 95th Arkansas General Assembly convened on January 13, 2025, and entered into an extended recess on April 16, 2025. The resolution authorizing the extended recess provides for…
2025 Arkansas Insurance Legislation Summary: P&C
This is the second article in a series of summaries of insurance legislation from the 95th Arkansas General Assembly. The 95th Arkansas General Assembly convened on January 13, 2025, and entered into an extended recess on April 16, 2025. The resolution authorizing the extended recess provides for…
2025 Arkansas Insurance Legislation Summary: General
This is the first article in a series of summaries of insurance legislation from the 95th Arkansas General Assembly. The 95th Arkansas General Assembly convened on January 13, 2025, and recessed on April 16, 2025. The General Assembly reconvened on May 5, 2025, and formally adjourned sine die. In…
Arkansas Environmental, Energy, and Water Law Blog
Oil and Gas Waste/Hazardous Materials Regulations: Environmental Organizations Submit Request for Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration Enforcement
EARTHJUSTICE on behalf of a number of other organizations submitted a June 4th document to three federal agencies styled: Request for Enforcement of Hazardous Materials Laws in U.S. Oil and Gas Fields (“Request”). The Request was joined by the following organizations: Truckers Movement for…
Battery Stewardship Act: Colorado Enacts Legislation Establishing a Framework for Management
The Colorado Legislature has enacted, and the Governor signed Senate Bill 25-163, which is titled: The Battery Stewardship Act (“Act”). The Act establishes a framework addressing the collection, transportation, processing, and recycling of batteries in the state of Colorado. The Act creates the…
Air Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality and Grant County Wood Utility Pole Yard Operate Enter into Consent Administrative Order
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Stella-Jones Corporation (“SJC”) entered into a May 21st Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations of an Air Permit. See LIS No. 25-048. The CAO provides that SJC owns and…
Waters of the United States/Clean Water Act: Associated General Contractors of America Comments Addressing Potential Revisions
The Association of General Contractors of America (“AGC”) submitted April 23rd comments to the United States Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (“collectively, “EPA”) regarding potential revisions to the Clean Water Act definition of “Waters of the United States”…
Capacity to Capture Energy from Waste/American Biogas Council: Data/Interactive State-by-State Map Released
The American Biogas Council (“ABC”) released what it characterized as: …new data showing, on a state-by- state basis, the energy production and waste recycling benefits that a full build-out of potential biogas systems could provide. ABC further states that the data includes: Number of existing…